Space above and beyond

idk about this

It’s great that Nikon has this contract with NASA, but am I the only one that thinks it’s a little bit sketchy that they’re bringing up loads of camera equipment onto a space station that’s supposed main purpose is for experiments. I mean, there’s already countless pictures from the ISS in low earth orbit, it’s not like we’re landing on mars for the first time. What I’m getting at is, I wonder if the real intention of all this camera equipment is for surveillance. I know there’s already a bunch of spy satellites in orbit to do this, but there’s always a transmission back to earth that’s capable of being intercepted. With the ISS, the images can simply be taken back down to earth with zero risk of being intercepted. What makes it worse is that Nikon has a contract with the Rososmos, and the ISS is pretty much theirs at the moment, since they’re the only ones capable of transporting ppl up. This picture says it all… astronaut a / ab workouts /a - the two on the right that appear to be very absorbed using the camera system are cosmonauts, and the astronaut innocently working out with an ab belt is on the left. Now if that doesn ‘t look bad, then idk what does…